The English are threatening their own and Japanese offensive.

The Germans demand that the Finns take Ino and the Murmansk railway in order to fight against the English 84.

An emergency meeting of the Party Central Committee is taking place with us regarding all of this 85.

Your policy — with all your might to accelerate the conclusion of an armistice and peace, naturally, at the price of new annexations.

Written 6 May 1918

First published in 1929

in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript